The violence of hate : confronting racism, anti-semitism, and other forms of bigotry

This text explores two forms of hate and prejudice - racism in contemporary American society and the historical occurrence of anti-Semitism - under a single conceptual framework. Jack Levin, is a well-known scholar, author, and lecturer on the subject of hate crimes. In this book he shows how support for both racism and anti-Semitism can be conceptualized as occurring among four groups: hatemongers, dabblers, sympathizers, and spectators. Levin argues that hate and prejudice continue at a very dangerous level in our society, and that hate typically emanates not from the ranting and raving of a few people at the margins of society, but from ordinary people in the mainstream. -- Publisher description.Leer más

1. Perspectives on hate and violence --
2. A typology of hate --
3. The benefits of bigotry --
4. The production of rebels, deviants, and other decent people.

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This text explores two forms of hate and prejudice - racism in contemporary American society and the historical occurrence of anti-Semitism - under a single conceptual framework. Jack Levin, is a well-known scholar, author, and lecturer on the subject of hate crimes. In this book he shows how support for both racism and anti-Semitism can be conceptualized as occurring among four groups: hatemongers, dabblers, sympathizers, and spectators. Levin argues that hate and prejudice continue at a very dangerous level in our society, and that hate typically emanates not from the ranting and raving of a few people at the margins of society, but from ordinary people in the mainstream. -- Publisher description.

How Bigotry Works & How to Confront it

An excellent overiew of the issues, with attention to how ordinary...Leer más

An excellent overiew of the issues, with attention to how ordinary people can choose to intervene. Levin persuasively argues that both culture and self-interest shape prejudiced ideas and acts of discrimination or violence, which are “in many cases, quite rational.” According to Levin, respect for “differences can be so costly in a psychologically and material sense that it may actually require rebellious or deviant behavior,” in contrast to the existing norms of a society.